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Janis Ian

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I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.


— Janis Ian


#being #being there #enough #friends #get

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.


— Janis Ian


#europe #god #having #her #i

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.


— Janis Ian


#everybody #guitar #i #played #playing

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.


— Janis Ian


#forward #gay #huge #i #i see

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.


— Janis Ian


#black #black and white #bus #child #couple

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.


— Janis Ian


#best #best work #concentrating #doing #go

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.


— Janis Ian


#anything #doing #else #i #i think

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.


— Janis Ian


#fiction #fiction writing #good #good luck #had

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.


— Janis Ian


#avid #been #book #car #even

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.


— Janis Ian


#down #get #human #human condition #i






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During the 1982–1992 period Janis Ian continued to write songs often in collaboration with songwriting partner Kye Fleming which were covered by the likes of Amy Grant Bette Midler and Marti Jones. She has a selection of her columns available on her website. She also came out as a lesbian with that release.

She has won two Grammy Awards the first in 1975 for her song "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album for her autobiography Society's Child (nearly 40 years later). Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink April 7 1951) is an American songwriter singer musician columnist and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s Janis Ian has continued recording into the 21st century.

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